Peening

Dengeln (named in the regional language as Dängeln, Dengelen, Tängeln, Demmeln, Dümmeln, Haren or tapping ) refers to a method for sharpening the blade of a scythe, faces or sickle, in which it is expelled into a thin, sharp edge by hammering. The cutting edge generated is referred to as Dangel.

Process

Through targeted strikes the scythe, views, or sickle blade is pulled in a narrow strip along the cutting edge ( the Dangel ) and diluted and thus sharpened. This thin blade is removed again in the course of time by the mowing and the regular sharpening required. A scythe that is used a lot, so it must also be re- sharpened more often. For thinning, mostly Dengel hammer and anvil Dengel be used, but it can also be used an ordinary blacksmith anvil with well-preserved railway. In addition, there are other tools, such as to form the Dengelleiher ( Dengel set) or a blow to the Dengler Dangel of Sense sheet. All tools have in common is the buzz, the sense of a very thin sheet to approximately 3-7 mm wide Dangel.

Reasons for the Dengeln

Peening is used for long-term maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of a thin and thus sharp cutting edge of the scythe or view the sheet or the sickle. At the same time the Dengeln any nicks can be worked out from the blade, which can easily arise when mowing through contact with objects such as stones in the crop. Through the cold deformation of the blade during peening increases the hardness of the cutting edge. Therefore, the cutting of gedengelten scythes or sickles or summary sheets have a much longer service life than sharpened by grinding.

Tool

Dengel hammer

The gel hammer, also Sensenhammer, is a hammer to Dengeln. He has a head weight of 250-600 g Due to the special shape of the hammer can be easily driven forward when peening the edge of the scythe. The gel hammer has two fins, sometimes a fin and a web. The gel should be hardened hammer. The fin is offset from the handle down. The hammer peen and the possibly existing railway are convex, so that at the Dengel blows only a small point of the blade can be made.

Peening anvil

The peening anvil is a relatively small anvil with either square, usually flat arched or narrow, cambered web. There is a thorn with which the peening anvil can be fixed by strikes him in a wooden stake or a gel stick at the bottom of the web. Also, there are gel anvils, which are suitable for direct use in the field. To this have a corresponding bulging, which then rests on the ground and prevents a deeper hammering into the soil. This is usually performed by the spine of the anvil. For the use of such an anvil, the hardness of the soil in which it should be taken is relevant, so that maintenance can be generated, but the anvil is not taken in the ground.

In principle, it should be noted in the use of peening anvil and hammer gel that getting a flat side and one side is sharp, but occurs in which direction the combination is variable. The bottom of the scythe blade shows each to the flat side, and drives the pointed side on top of the scythe blade from the Dangel. The pointed end is always aligned parallel to Dangel.

Devices

There are also devices in which a mechanically operated hammer is combined with an anvil of a machine. Also, sometimes a seat is nailed to the wooden stake. This is called Dengel floor.

Wider meaning

Ever since the onomatopoeic use as Inflektiv in the Werner comics ( " dengel, dengel " ) is the verb peening figuratively used for operations in which hammering noise.